Dr Laura Dixon

Chapters

Wall T, Williams S, Dixon L. 2025. Futuring as inquiry: pragmatics, problematics, and possibilities The Elgar Companion to Management Education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals Edward Elgar Publishing

Wall T, Williams S, Österlind E, Dixon L, Soehren D. 2024. Future developments to embrace a ‘pedagogy of passion’. Wall T, Österlind E, Hallgren E. Sustainability Teaching for Impact How to Inspire and Engage Students Using Drama Routledge 9781032769301

Dixon L, Gaston L. 2022. The Hope and Glory Festival: a festival of failure Events MISmanagement: Learning from failure :182-196 Goodfellow Publishers Ltd DOI Publisher Url

Andrews H, Jimura T, Dixon L. 2019. Doing Tourism Ethnography Tourism Ethnographies: Ethics, Methods, Applications and Reflexivity :1-15 Routledge. Abingdon 9781138061767 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Wall T, Williams S, Dixon L, Soehren D. Provocation: Futuring at scale Wall T, Österlind E, Hallgren E, Kernan MA. Sustainability teaching for impact: how to engage and inspire students using drama Routledge 9781032769301

Internet publication

Dixon L, Gaston L. 2024. Embracing innovation in business education: the role of video feedback Publisher Url

Dixon L, Makin V. 2024. Implementing block teaching in large-scale business school settings Publisher Url Public Url

Dixon L. 2022. Why a post-Covid, ‘one size fits all’ approach to personal tutoring risks repeating familiar mistakes Publisher Url

Journal article

Dixon L, Makin V. 2024. Blocked out: reflections on the potential of intensive modes of teaching to enhance post-COVID-19 graduate employability in large-scale educational settings Journal of Work-Applied Management, DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Dixon L. 2024. Illusive Inclusion: Destination-marketing, managing Gay Pride events and the problem with cosmopolitan inclusivity Tourism Management Perspectives, 51 :1-9 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Dixon L. 2023. Employability and Assessment: how ’blogs’ can diversify the assessment diet and enhance transferable skills Prism, :1-7 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Gaston L, Dixon L. 2023. Calling All Mares: Community, Identity and Group Sex at the San Francisco Horse Market The Journal of Sex Research, :1-8 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Dixon L. 2022. Back to the Future: the impact of perceptions and experiences of time on the lives of British lifestyle migrants in Spain Sociology, DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Dixon L, Fletcher T, O'Gorman V. 2019. Personal tutoring: a recognition of ‘levelness’ in the support for undergraduates Innovations in Practice, 13 :18-23 Publisher Url Public Url

Dixon L. 2019. Gender, sexuality and lifestyle migration: exploring the impact of cosmopolitan place-marketing discourses on British women in Spain Current Sociology, 68 :281-298 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Gaston L, Dixon L. 2019. A want or a need? Exploring the role of grassroots gay rugby teams in the context of inclusive masculinity. Journal of Gender Studies, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Dixon L. 2019. ‘Placing’ Space: exploring the socio-spatial impacts of cosmopolitan place-marketing approaches on British migrants in Spain Space and Culture, 24 :604-616 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Dixon L, O'Gorman V. 2019. ‘Block teaching’ – exploring lecturers' perceptions of intensive modes of delivery in the context of undergraduate education Journal of Further and Higher Education, DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Dixon LJ. 2015. Black swan, white masks: Contesting cosmopolitanism and double misrecognition in a gay tourist town Sexualities, 18 :37-56 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Dixon LJ, Peachey JT. 2012. The Paradox of Representation and the Problem with Recognition: What Does it Mean to be Visible? Anthropology Matters Journal, 14 Publisher Url

Books (authored)

DIXON L. 2021. Gender, Sexuality and National Identity in the Lives of British Lifestyle Migrants in Spain: Chasing the Rainbow Routledge 9780367651725

Books (edited)

Tourism Ethnographies: Ethics, Methods, Applications and Reflexivity Andrews H, Jimura T, Dixon L. Author Url Publisher Url

Conference presentation:

Blocked Out: post-Covid, can intensive modes of teaching facilitate transition, aid retention, and improve attainment amongst increasingly diverse management students?, RMLE unConference, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia, Oral presentation. 2024

Amicus Mort: exploring the role of death doulas within a social wellbeing framework for end-of-life care, Inaugural British Journal of Sociology Conference, London School of Economics, Oral presentation. 2024

Gay rugby clubs - a need or a want?, British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Univeristy of Manchester, Oral presentation. 2017

'Broken Promises, Shattered Dreams: lifestyle migration and the search for authenticity in a Spanish coastal tourist town', CRESC Annual Conference: Promises: Crises and Sociocultural Change, University of Manchester, Oral presentation. 2012

'Black Swan, White Masks: contesting feminine lesbianism in a gay tourist town, The12th EASA Biennial Conference, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Oral presentation. 2012

'Black Swan, White Masks: contesting feminine lesbianism in a gay tourist town, N:Gender Series, University of Sussex, Oral presentation. 2012

Black Swan, White Masks: contesting feminine lesbianism in a gay tourist town, North West Doctoral Training Centre Anthropology Postgraduate Showcase, University of Manchester, Oral presentation. 2012

Media Coverage:

Interview in The Times Higher Education supplement regarding the challenges of 'block teaching' Title: Is block teaching the future of university pedagogy? By: Anna McKie 2022

In September 2010, I was interviewed regarding my PhD research by one of the top two Spanish daily newspapers - El Periodico. The title translates as: 'The expats who come searching for a dream'

Conference organisation:

Leisure Studies Association, 2016 Annual Conference, Conference Co-Organiser, https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/microsites/leisure-studies-association-conference/location. 2016